Gearing Up for Floorball Trainings

FLOORBALL
We are preparing for the 2 weeks of floorball training and discipleships that start on Sept 28. A team of 12 Christians will arrive from Switzerland on Monday to run the event. Tyren is busy coordinating things with the floorball team here in Lichinga and working on some logistic details. This is an opportunity for the lives of many young people to be greatly impacted with the love and goodness of Jesus Christ in the sports' arena, and for a lasting impact of the sports' department here in Lichinga as well. (To the left is a photo of kids with palm branches they use as hockey sticks. Our floorball teams use professional looking plastic sticks).

TRIP TO MALAWI TO RENEW VISA
When we returned to Mozambique, we found out that the original information we received about Chayah’s Mozambican residence was incorrect. Since Chayah has a U.S. passport now, we had to apply for her temporary residence visa to remain in Mozambique. We recently traveled to Blantyre, Malawi (~15 hour drive there and back) to apply for Chayah’s visa. We were thankful for our truck, which held up well on the bumpy dirt roads. If you read the news on the web a few weeks ago, you know that prices, especially food, across Mozambique are on the rise. These costs include our yearly visas which formerly cost about $100 but now will cost us more than $800 per person each year to renew (for adults). Children’s visas are renewed every 5 years.

CHOOSING TO GO DEEPER
More than ever, we understand that the cost of true discipleship is everything. Faced with Jesus’ burning passion for the city and children in the villages, we know that nothing will suffice except Him alone. As missionaries, if we want to minister to Him and experience His glory, we can have none of our own dreams, desires and self-ambitions. Time after time, we are laying down more and more for the sake of Jesus who died to give us His life. May God’s presence awaken His people and the lost in Lichinga to the newness of life in Christ, and to the beauty and joy of laying down their plans, desires and dreams to live for His.

In the joy of knowing Jesus,

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes